While Desmond Dekker personified the Skinhead ethos with his
Rude Boy and Sufferers songs, The Maytals were the embodiment of that
culture in group form.

If Toot's Hibbert, lead singer of the group, had never
recorded anything other than his killer autobiographical 54-46, he would
still have earned his place, with The Maytals, as an exemplary Skinhead
group; he did, however, record many other Sufferers cuts, Pressure Drops
being just such a recording.

The word 'pressure' was at the time one of those
much voiced buzz words, that would be flitted into almost every conversation at
least a dozen times, it sort of replaced the word 'agro' as by that time it had
become in use by the mainstream media and middle classes, who used it as both
currency to make themselves sound hip, and offensively as a patronising and derogatory
inference when used in conjunction with any subject relating to the working
class'.

Preasure Drop was also released on Trojan 7709 with a picture
sleeve and rerecorded three years later as Pressure Drop '72 and also released
on Trojan; see below.